Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

More than 100 Somalis, recently released from Ethiopian detention facilities and handed over to the Somali government, arrived in Mogadishu on Saturday, government officials told VOA Somali. The 114 prisoners smiled and some of them kneeled as they got off the plane and kissed the soil. Parents and relatives waiting for them at the airport […]

A key section of the bill mandates a congressional review if Trump attempts to ease or end the sanctions against Moscow. Democrat Steny Hoyer said lawmakers had settled lingering issues with the bill, which also includes economic penalties against Iran and North Korea [File: Yuri Gripas/Reuters] US Congressional Republicans and Democrats announced on Saturday they […]

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi launched Mohammed Naguib military base in a huge ceremony in El Hammam city west of Alexandria on Saturday. Mohammed Naguib military base is the biggest in the Middle East and Africa, reported Egyptian media. President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi underlined that the Arab participation in the inauguration ceremony of Mohammed Naguib […]

A list of dozens of suspected ISIS militants trained to deal with explosives and potentially aiming at terrorist attacks in Europe has been shared with EU intelligence by The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), the Guardian reports. Interpol issued a list of 173 terrorists linked to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), who “may have manifested willingness to commit […]

 The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office had nothing to do with the meeting of private Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya with Donald Trump Jr., its official representative told RT, calling allegations of any involvement “insane.” READ FULL INTERVIEW: ‘We don’t use private lawyers to cooperate with US’ – Russian Prosecutor General’s Office to RT There have been […]

Turkey is set to mark the first anniversary of last year’s deadly July 15 coup attempt with a series of commemoration events slated to take place all across Turkey, with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expected to address the public in Istanbul and Ankara. The commemoration events all around the country will be launched with a special session […]

Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian security checkpoint on Friday, opening fire on a car and killing five policemen in an area just south of the capital, the state-run MENA news agency and the Interior Ministry said. Three gunmen on a motorbike attacked police in al-Badrasheen area of Giza province, 30 km (20 miles) south of Cairo, […]

The summary said Air Canada Flight 759 had already travelled almost half a kilometre over the taxiway before aborting the landing. As the Airbus 320 pulled up sharply it flew 30 metres over the first two jets, about 60 metres above the third and about 90 metres over the fourth, the summary said. It then […]